Category: Yemen

al-Malāḥim Media presents a new video message from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: "On the Intervention of France in the War on Mali"

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UPDATE 1/25/2013 3:53 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic video message:
In the Name of Allah; the Merciful; the Compassionate.
Praise be to Allah; the Lord of all beings & there shall be no aggression save for evildoers.
and peace and blessings be upon our faithful prophet and upon all of his family and companions; then;
The decision taken by the French Government to intervene in the war against Mali doesn’t serve its interests. The government considered solely their view regardless of the view of the French people and their interests.
its former decision of withdrawal from Afghanistan was a rational one; Yet how could it make today such a decision to intervene in this particular region! even though its history among those nations was very bloody; at which point All Muslims are infuriated.
O French people; This aggression; arbitrariness and oppression against mankind shall only bring you bad consequences and woe. There was certainly a lesson for you in your previous aggression; How long did it last? And how did it end?
for how long are you going to abstain from reflecting on your past mistakes?
Stop pulling wool over other’s eyes; claiming that your intervention is for the sole purpose of protecting Mali’s people and helping them; c’est de la poudre aux yeux!
Why did you not interfere in their affliction ages ago?
& Why don’t you protect the Palestinians against the brute aggression of Israel?
& then if you’re truthful why don’t you intervene to protect the people of Iraq and Syria; and other oppressed nations?
hence it’s only sensible that this aggression is a Crusade against the Muslims’ countries and nations. that is not unexpected; not long ago you commit aggression against the veil of the Muslim women & today you aggress against governing under Sharia laws. you respected neither your invalid laws within the bound of your lands nor your unjust treaties with others, Where’s the Democracy you keep ranting about?
We in Al-Qa’ida Organization in the Arabian Peninsula counsel the French people and their government; to retract this aggression & to pay attention to their deteriorating economic conditions and internal problems; you’ve enough trouble; do not ask for more. there’s a lesson for you in what have become of the Americans, ask them; for none could inform you of their fate like them who are aware of it. the Americans having tasted blood in Iraq & Afghanistan realised that they bit off more than what they can chew. Think this over rationally if you wish to save yourselves. The Muslims are all but one body and one nation; certainly they couldn’t see their brothers in religion suffer from flagrant aggression and brute oppression and do not rush to their aid. as of today; the Mujahideen’s strength differs from how it used to be; their armies multiplied; their brigades spread out; and they are all but one hand against whoever aggress against them.
Allah the Almighty says: “وَلَمَنِ انتَصَرَ بَعْدَ ظُلْمِهِ فَأُولَـٰئِكَ مَا عَلَيْهِم مِّن سَبِيلٍ”
“There is no blame against him who avenges himself after he has been wronged.”
all honour belongs to Allah, and to His Messenger, and to the believers.
Al-Qa’ida Organization in Arabian Peninsula
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al-Malāḥim Media presents a new audio message from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula's Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Sulaymān al-Rubaysh: "Do Not Blame America"

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UPDATE 8/26/13 7:56 AM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic audio message and transcription:
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Sulaymān al-Rubaysh — “Do Not Blame America” (En)
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UPDATE 12/4/12 10:23 PM: Here is an Arabic transcription of the below audio message:
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Sulaymān al-Rubaysh — “Do Not Blame America” (Ar)
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Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Sulaymān al-Rubaysh — “Do Not Blame America”

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Madad News Agency presents a new newsletter from Anṣār al-Sharī’ah in Yemen: “News Report, Issue #26″

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NOTE: For the previous newsletters, see: #25, #24, #23, #22, #21, #20, #19, #18, #17, #16, #15, #14, #13, #12, #11, #10, #9, #8, #7, #6, #5, #4, #3, #2, and #1. There are English translations for the first thirteen reports in those links.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Anṣār al-Sharī’ah in Yemen — “News Report, Issue #26″
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New statement from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: "Condolences on the Death of the Two Mujāhidīn Shaykhs Abū al-Walid al-Maqdisī and Abū al-Barā' al-Maqdisī"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — “Condolences on the Death of the Two Mujāhidīn Shaykhs Abū al-Walid al-Maqdisī and Abū al-Barā’ al-Maqdisī”
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al-Malāḥim Media presents a new audio message from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula's Shaykh Abū Sufyān al-Azdī (Sa'īd al-Shihrī): "Events and Lessons Learned"

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UPDATE 1/29/13 8:24 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic audio message and transcription:
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Shaykh Abū Sufyān al-Azdī (Sa’īd al-Shihrī) — “Events and Lessons Learned” (En)
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UPDATE 10/21/12 10:45 AM: Here is an Arabic transcription of the below audio message:

Click the following link for  a safe PDF copy: Shaykh Abū Sufyān al-Azdī (Sa’īd al-Shihrī) — “Events and Lessons Learned” (Ar)
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al-Malāḥim Media presents a new video message from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: “The Third Appeal of the Deputy Consul of the Saudi’s in Aden ‘Abd Allah Muḥammad Khalīfah al-Khālidī”

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UPDATE 10/24/12 10:22 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic video message and transcription:

Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — “The Third Appeal of the Deputy Consul of the Saudi’s in Aden ‘Abd Allah Muḥammad Khalīfah al-Khālidī” (En)
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UPDATE 10/17/12 9:06 PM: Here is an Arabic transcription of the below video message:

Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — “The Third Appeal of the Deputy Consul of the Saudi’s in Aden ‘Abd Allah Muḥammad Khalīfah al-Khālidī” (Ar)
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NOTE: For the earlier appeals see: #2 and #1.
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Check out my new Atlantic piece co-authored with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: "How the Arab Spring's Prisoner Releases Have Helped the Jihadi Cause"

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The investigation of the devastating Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed American ambassador Christopher Stevens — limited as it is by security concerns that hampered the FBI’s access to the site –h as begun to focus on a Libya-based Egyptian, Muhammad Jamal (a.k.a. Abu Ahmad al Masri). As a detailed Wall Street Journal report explains, Jamal is notable not only for having fighters under his command and operating militant training camps in the Libyan desert, but also for having recently gotten out of Egyptian prison.
This latter fact makes Jamal part of a trend that has gone largely unremarked upon in the public sphere since the beginning of the “Arab Spring” uprisings: prisons in affected countries have been emptied, inmates scattering after being released or breaking free. In many cases, it is a good thing that prisoners have gone free: the Arab dictatorships were notorious for unjustly incarcerating political prisoners, and abusing them in captivity. But jihadists have also been part of this wave of releases, and we are now beginning to see the fruits of the talent pool that is back on the streets.
Many commentators have remarked that the jihadist movement has shown increased vigor recently, including al Qaeda’s North African affiliate and the various Ansar al Sharia groups that emerged in multiple countries, but the prison releases have been an important part of this story that analysts have generally ignored.
Prisoners have gone free for a variety of reasons. Muammar Qaddafi’s government used these releases as an offensive tactic early after the uprisings, setting prisoners free in rebellious areas in order to create strife there. As the rebellion continued, some prison governors decided for their own reasons (perhaps as a way of defecting) to empty prisons they were charged with guarding. Chaos allowed some escapes, as guards afraid of reprisals fled their posts; in other cases gunmen attacked prisons in order to release the inmates. And regimes that experienced less chaotic transitions, including Tunisia but especially Egypt, have been hesitant to continue imprisoning virtually anybody jailed by the old regime, including violent Islamists with blood on their hands.
The potential for danger was actually apparent very early in the events of the Arab Spring. In January 2011, even before Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power, it was widely reported that thousands of prisoners had escaped from Egyptian jails, including militants. A lengthy hagiographical account of how “the mujahedin” had escaped from the Abu Za’bal prison soon appeared on the Ansar al Mujahedin Network, a jihadist web forum.
After Mubarak’s fall, many people imprisoned by the old regime were let back on the streets. Hani al Saba’i, a figure with deep ties to the jihadist movement who runs the London- based Al Maqrizi Center for Historical Studies, published several lists of names of militant figures who had been released, beginning in February 2011. As he wrote on February 27, “This release is one of the positive outcomes of this popular Egyptian revolution that we hope to conclude with the application of the Islamic sharia.”
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al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s al-Malāḥim Media presents: “Martyrs of the Arabian Peninsula #11 – al-Batār al-Janūbī (Turkī bin Sa'd bin Qulayṣ al-Shahrānī)"

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NOTE: Here is the first (English and Arabic), second (English and Arabic), third (English and Arabic), fourth (English and Arabic), fifth (Arabic and English),sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth editions in this martyrology series.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — “Martyrs of the Arabian Peninsula #11 – al-Batār al-Janūbī (Turkī bin Sa’d bin Qulayṣ al-Shahrānī)”
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Madad News Agency presents a new statement from Anṣār al-Sharī'ah in Yemen: "Denying Links to Any Account on Social Networking Sites, Only Links With Madad News Agency"

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وكالة مــدد الإخبارية
 نفى مصدر إعلامي بأنصار الشريعة اليوم الأحد أن يكون لديهم أية حسابات رسمية على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي سوى صفحة وكالة مدد الإخبارية. لا سيما الصفحة التي ظهرت مؤخراً على الفيس بوك باسم (أنصار الشريعة في جزيرة العرب). وأوضح أن الصفحات الأخرى التي تدعي انتماءها للمجاهدين في جزيرة العرب ليست لها أي صفة رسمية أو علاقة تنظيمية أو غير تنظيمية بأنصار الشريعة من قريب أو بعيد، داعيا كل من يهمه الأمر من المتابعين للنشاط الإعلامي لأنصار الشريعة من أفراد ومؤسسات أن يقتصر في ذلك على صفحة وكالة مدد الإخبارية على فيس بوك والبيانات التي تصدر عن مركز الفجر للإعلام ويتم نشرها في المنتديات الجهادية المعتمدة رسميا من قبل المجاهدين. المصدر
[ وكالة مدد الأخبارية ]

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